Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-08-26

NOTICES OF STANTON AND AUGUSTA PEOPLE
sTAUNToN SHOTS CHALLENGED TO AN ATLANTA
SHOOTING MAToH-THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
"A $500 INVITATION.
Correspondence of the Staunt on VINp1cAToR.1
ATLANTA. GA, Aug. "a.
When I went around to DIR. Strickler's
church the other night, as Staunton Presby-
terrain naturally would do, [ found the pastor
absent. DR.. Stricken has been at the Warm
Springs for several weeks. but an Augusta
man is filling his pulpit during his absence.
Rev. DR.. j. N. Craig, the Secretary of Home
Missions located here, breaches for him once
on Sunday and conducts the prayer meeting
services Wednesday night. Miss Virginia
Stricken starts for Staunton to-day and many
old pupils with hosts of friends and patrons
of the Augusta Female seminary will hear
with pleasure that she is to resume her old
place in the faculty of that popular institu-
ton.
In travelling through the South Staun-
tonian can't get into city, town, or scarcely
county, where he is not met with some one
who has been to Staunton to school or has
sister, daughter or sweetheart who has been
there. The fact that you are from Staunton
is good introduction in that connection.
"Ah, you are from Staunton sir, well you all
ed her fducat ion there" or 81 have a sister
there, or | had cousin or friend there"
and then from that point of common interest
you get acquainted and generally it is an &C
quaintance worth making. 1 am sure that
Staunton is as much appreciated in the South
her metropolitan facilities.
Miss Stricken will be accompanied by DR..
Strickler's Oldest daughter, who goes to the
A. F. S. They will meet DIR. Stricken on the
road Thursday, and visit Staunton and Angus
ia friends together before the commencement
of the session and the expiration of Dr. Strick-
ler's Through
1 find crack shooting club here to which
two Staunton men belong, DR.. Carter Berke-
ley and Capt Chas. S. Arnall. They had
contest in Rome the other day with the Rome
club. see from the Constitution" that Capt
11ludll Wdb JIG VI uAo luplI6S duu L. 0GTA6-
ley made one of the best scores. But although
they were Sin Rome, they did not do as Rome
did," for the Hill City Club beat them, cir
cumstances being unfavorable to the Atlanta
Club.
Shooting will be one of the features of the
great Piedmont Exposition to be held here in
October, which President Cleveland will visit.
Shooting teams wi1 be expected from all over
the county, and the capital prize of $3.50
may be won by team of five. Arnall and
Berkeley who know something about the
shooting of the Staunton boys, are anxious
for the club there to send down five of their
best shots, and don't think they would be
sorry to see them beat the Atlanta club and
carry off the prize. What's the matter with
Summerson, Bargamin and three or four 9TH
ers there that they can't come in here on the
home stretch?
The legislature is in session here now, and
has been ever since the 4th of July, and why a
body of men like these should be willing to
swelter through the dog days in this sunny
Sonth, shut up inside these hot brick walls, is
something past my comprehension. It's big
body too, ITS in the House and AZ in the Sen
ate, and it has some good speakers and able
men in it. There has been more discussion
over bill to sell the State railroad than any
thing else. They can get SIS, 100000 for it.
It now rents for $25, 900 month, and is
good collateral for the State The legislature
is much divided and there will hardly be
sale think. A liberal pension bill for wound
ed old Confeds, will be passed, and bill ap-
pointing a Commission to aid the Governor in
investigating the many applications for par
don and thus relieving him of his labors, both
wise measures.
Yesterday I saw the invitation prepared by
the Piedmont Exposition to be sent to Mr.. and
Mrs. Cleveland. 1t is three heavy sheets of
gold opening like book. The gold Is from
Georgia mines, the silver hinges and tips are
of Georgia silver and it is set with Georgia
diamonds, Iencased in q casket of Georgia mar
BILE and put in box made of Georgia wood.
1t is an elegant and costly thing, decidedly
unique and cost about $500, T.o,M.